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WILLIAM C. MSER, OF EAST NNTMEE TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA. YLettere Patent No.` 71,318, dated November 26, 12.367.`

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTER-WORKER.

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Beit known that I, WILLIAM C. MOSER, of East Nantmeal township,lin the county of Chester, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a. new and useful Machine tfor Working Butter; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactidescriptionof the same, reference being had to the accompanying draw ing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, -making part of this specification, in which* Figure 1 is a plan view, and

Figure 2 a. side elevation, partly sectioned.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the two views. 4

A is a rectangular trough or box, having enclosed sides and ends, and open at theA top, and mountedon legs a. B isa pan, fixedv to the under side of the box A, so as to be` readily removed at will` r C is a shaft, placed transversely at the top of the trough Its journals take into guide-slots' b b, formed on each sideof the machine by the sides of the box A and the rails c @which are held in place by Vtheuprights d d, near the t `ends of the sides of the box, by which means the shaft is retained transversely, and at the same time allowed a perfectly free longitudinal motion. The shaft C is provided with radial paddles D D, which extend to near the bottom of the box A. E E are vibrating arms on the ends of the shaft C, adjacent to tho inner sides of the trough. A squeezer-roller, F, is pivoted to their outer ends, and the uprights G G, which carry the handle i i i H, are fixed to them, projecting upward at right angles, or nearly. I are pinion-wheels on the journals of the shaft C, outside of the box A. Each takes into a rack, J, Yfixed to the side and near the rbottom of the trough i or box. Contrary to the principle of the working of arack and pinion, the racks J are, in this instance, fixed and immovable, and the pinions I travel over them. Y l

Y The operation of my machine is as follows: 'lbe squeczer-roller F is raised clear of thchottoln ofthe box A, by vibrating the arms E on the shaft C. The butter to be worked is then placed in thc trough, and the" squeezer-roller lowered. The pan B is filled with ice or warm water, according to thc consistency of the butter. The operator holds the handle H ,land applies the necessary pressure and motion to the vibrating arms, und thereby to the squeezer-ro1ler, for properly working the butter free of its buttermilk. At the suine time the pinions are rotated by power applied to the shaft C, whereby they are caused, by gearing into thc racks, to travel from end to end of the trough. The radial paddles D rotate with the shaft C, and sweep the butter back towards the squeeze-roller, if the pinions are travelling in one direction, and from; it, if travelling in a contrary direction, thus exposing every portion of the butter 'successively to the action of the roller. The buttcri milk and the aqueous particles run down the inclined bottom of the trough, and escape through n, drip-pipe.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1. The machine as a whole, iwhen combined, arranged, and operated substantially as shown and described. 2. The shaft C, paddles D, vibrating arms E, squeezer-roller F,luprights G, and thc handleH, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses. t

WILLIAM C. MOSER.

Witnesses:

Jenn B. MOSER, IioUrsl A. Mitros. 

